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Curious ReadersEp 25: Top 10 Books of 2025 (& Our Biggest Disappointments) Join Amanda and Joseph for an end-of-year bibliofest as they talk about their top 10 books of the year, plus they dish the dirt on the titles that sadly didn’t live up to their expectations over the last twelve months. (1:20) Bookish News (1:24) The Warwick Prize For Women In Translation (1:44) And The Walls Became The World All Around by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated by Sigrid Rausing(3:33) The New Yorker at 100 (Netflix)(5:22) Our Top 10 Books of 2025 (#10 to #6)(6:55) New York Times...
2025-12-191h 17
Meet the WritersInternational Booker Prize 2024 winnerAnnounced this week is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024. The recipient of this year’s award is ‘Kairos’ by German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translated by Michael Hoffman, who each take home half of the £50,000 prize money. Host Georgina Godwin speaks to the winning duo and the administrator of the prize, Fiammetta Rocco, who lifts the lid on the selection process. We also talk to Granta’s Sigrid Rausing, who reveals who is buying translated literature and what sells best. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-05-2628 min
Kontext40. Be my girlfriend I have golden finger!Hanna Stenman är tillbaka från Sydkorea och har förutom en ny fin T-shirt tankar om hur extremrika personer klär sig. Hon lanserar det svenska begreppet "Fördold förmögenhet" och det kommer fram att Mireya har träffat en miljardär. Silas Aliki fortsätter outröttligt att lära oss om nya repressiva lagar och berättar om ett nytt sätt att idka massövervakning på. Vi får lära oss vad "Chat Control" innebär och hur rätten att inte vara övervakad presenteras som något som inte går ihop med att också skydd...
2023-05-031h 10
Last WordBaroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree NelsonMatthew Bannister onBaroness Blood (pictured), the trade unionist, community worker and peace campaigner who became the first woman from Northern Ireland to be given a life peerage.Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock 'n' roll pioneer whose turbulent private life included bigamy, violence and drug addiction. Ian Jack, the journalist known for his long form articles and for editing the Independent on Sunday and the literary magazine Granta. Hilaree Nelson, the intrepid ski mountaineer who completed more than forty challenging expeditions in 16 countries.Producer: Neil GeorgeInterviewed...
2022-11-0428 min
African Philanthropy Forum Podcast SeriesGiving Voice to the Youth of AfricaOur guest on this episode of the APF Podcast Series is Hosh Ibrahim, Board Member at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, an African Foundation focused on the critical importance of governance and leadership for Africa. The Foundation is driven by the conviction that governance and leadership lie at the heart of any tangible and shared improvement in the quality of life of African citizens.
In this episode, Hosh discusses the importance of engaging African youth for Africa to rise to its true potential. The conversation covers critical issues including jobs, civic participation, energy, technology, climate change, cultural diversity...
2022-08-2529 min
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James JoycePages 322 - 328│Wandering Rocks, part VII│Read by Sigrid RausingPages 322 - 328│Wandering Rocks, part VII│Read by Sigrid RausingSigrid Rausing is the Publisher of Granta Publications and the Editor of Granta Magazine. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London, and her first book, History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia: the End of a Collective Farm, was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. In 2015 her second book, Everything is Wonderful, was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Her third book, Mayhem, was published in 2017, and is forthcoming in a number of translations. It was short-listed for the W...
2022-03-3014 min
Philosophy For Our TimesIs Morality Rooted In Culture? | Joel RobbinsLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom remote groups in Papua New Guinea to Pentecostal Christians, what can values and desires around the world tell us about the nature of morality? Cambridge anthropologist Joel Robbins tours the globe in search of the good. Joel Robbins is the Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and author of Becoming Sinners. He specialises in the anthropology of religion and anthropological theory.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for...
2020-02-1842 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIs Morality Rooted In Culture? | Joel RobbinsLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom remote groups in Papua New Guinea to Pentecostal Christians, what can values and desires around the world tell us about the nature of morality? Cambridge anthropologist Joel Robbins tours the globe in search of the good. Joel Robbins is the Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and author of Becoming Sinners. He specialises in the anthropology of religion and anthropological theory.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for...
2020-02-1842 minLast WordHans Rausing, Sir Dawda Jawara, Sue Crockford, Terrance DicksMatthew Bannister onHans Rausing, the Swedish-born industrialist who led the Tetra Pak company. In the 1990s he topped the Sunday Times Rich List ahead of the Queen. His daughter Sigrid pays tribute. Sir Dawda Jawara the first President of independent Gambia who faced two coup attempts. Sue Crockford, a feminist campaigner who made influential films about the social history of North London.Terrance Dicks, who was screenwriter and script editor for Dr Who and also wrote novelisations of the series.Producer: Neil GeorgeInterviewed Guest: Esau...
2019-09-1328 min
Libya Matters09: Building Liveable Futures with Poonam JoshiIn this episode, Poonam Joshi, Consultant Director at Funders' Initiative for Civil Society and former Executive Director of the Sigrid Rausing Fund, joins host Elham Saudi to discuss the threats and attacks civil society and human rights defenders face in Libya. Together, we explore how and why the space for civil society in Libya is shrinking, and how, as human rights defenders, we can begin to contest and counter this trend.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review and a 5 STAR rating on iTunes. Checkout Lawyers for Justice work...
2019-09-1158 min
LÄSpoddenLÄSpodden 13 Läst i jul och nyårLÄSpodden på Helsingborgs bibliotek tipsar om några favoriter på temat ”Läst i jul och nyår”
”Svälten” av Magnus Västerbro
”En kvinnas övertygelse” av Meg Wolitzer
”Pachinko” av Min Jin Lee
”Malmström: En memoar” av Sigrid Rausing
”Ghachar ghochar” av Vivek Shanbhag
”Jag är, jag är, jag är: ett hjärtslag från döden” av Maggie O´Farrell
2019-01-1751 min
Private PassionsSigrid RausingSigrid Rausing is a writer, publisher and philanthropist. She’s the co-founder of Portobello books, the owner of Granta books, and the editor of Granta literary magazine, a role she says she hugely enjoys. It’s impossible though to talk about her own achievements without mentioning her Swedish family background: her grandfather founded the packaging company Tetra Pak, and his brilliant idea for the invention of waxed cardboard cartons for milk and fruit juice brought him great wealth - and has allowed his grand-daughter to found one of the biggest philanthropic organizations in this country. But the family has been...
2019-01-1332 min
FörfattarscenenSigrid Rausing i samtal med UKONSigrid Rausings "Malström" är en gripande historia om missbrukets natur, och en lyrisk och fragmentarisk memoarbok. Vem kan hjälpa missbrukaren, uppslukad av sitt beroende, sin hunger, sitt enorma behov? Det finns ingen medicin: drogerna är medicinen. Och vem kan hjälpa missbrukarnas familjer, som så ofta får bära en del av skulden för deras självdestruktivitet?
Sommaren 2012 hittas Eva Rausing död i sitt hem i London. Hon och hennes man, Hans Kristian Rausing, hade brottats med ett drogberoende i många år. Nu försöker Sigrid Rausing, förläggare och författare, förstå vad som hän...
2018-11-061h 05
PoptillæggetMidt i Gina Jaquelines lyserøde mediedrømSidste år startede DR3-serien 'Gina Jaqueline - en sugardaters fortælling' en landsdækkende diskussion om prostitution. Siden har hovedpersonen kæmpet for at styre sin egen fortælling, blandt andet med udgivelsen af bogen 'Se mig' og med den nye dokumentarfilm 'Midt i en drøm'.Er Gina Jaqueline anderledes end andre realitystjerner - og hvorfor? Giver filmen 'Midt i en drøm' egentlig noget, som DR3-serien ikke gjorde? Og hvad er ligheden mellem Gina Jaqueline og Søren Ryge? Lyt med, når panelet diskuterer Gina Jaquelines samlede værk, rollemodeller og tabubearbejdelse på tv....
2018-11-0259 min
LÄS HÅRT!Vampire the Masquerade & We Sold Our SoulsAllt det senaste, med Johan Wanloo och Magnus Dahl. Magnus har läst den femte versionen av rollspelet ”Vampire: The Masquerade”. Johan har i sin tur en del att säga om Grady Hendrix ”We sold our souls”.
Nästa avsnitt
Johan hoppar på en Doc Savage-roman (eller den där boken av Sigrid Rausing) och Magnus ger sig i kast med Johan Egerkrans ”De odöda” samt Gotham Central-omnibusen.
Annat som nämns
Robert Jordan ”The wheel of time”, Brandon Sanderson, Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir ”Remo”, James Bond, Karl Ove Knausgård ”Min kamp”, David Lagercranz, konventet Östan...
2018-10-2646 min
Little Atoms504 - Wellcome Prize Special part 1: Meredith Wadman and Sigrid RausingIn the first of three shows featuring shortlisted writers for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, Neil talks to Meredith Wadman about The Vaccine Race, and Sigrid Rausing about Mayhem: A Memoir.Meredith Wadman, MD, has a long profile as a medical reporter and has covered biomedical research politics from Washington, DC, for twenty years. She has written for Nature, Fortune, The New York Times, andThe Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she began medical school at the University of British Columbia and completed medical school as a Rh...
2018-04-2030 min
Escape To A Immersive Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Mayhem by Sigrid RausingPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/121495to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mayhem
Author: Sigrid Rausing
Narrator: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 09-07-17
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings
Genres: Drug Dependency
Publisher's Summary:
2017-09-075h 55
Desert Island DiscsSigrid RausingKirsty Young's castaway is the philanthropist and publisher Sigrid Rausing.Founder of one of the UK's largest philanthropic foundations, her trust has given away around £230m to human rights causes since it began.Brought up in Sweden, she is currently the publisher of Granta Books and the editor of Granta Magazine and her work spotting and developing new writers stems from her lifelong love of literature.As the granddaughter of Ruben Rausing, who founded food packaging company Tetra Pak, she is a member of one of Britain's richest families. Her interest in human r...
2016-01-2433 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018Sigrid RausingKirsty Young's castaway is the philanthropist and publisher Sigrid Rausing.Founder of one of the UK's largest philanthropic foundations, her trust has given away around £230m to human rights causes since it began.Brought up in Sweden, she is currently the publisher of Granta Books and the editor of Granta Magazine and her work spotting and developing new writers stems from her lifelong love of literature.As the granddaughter of Ruben Rausing, who founded food packaging company Tetra Pak, she is a member of one of Britain's richest families. Her interest in human r...
2016-01-2433 min
Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoBeing German, Becoming Muslim: race, religion, and conversion in the New EuropeContributor(s): Dr Esra Özyürek, Dr Ruth Mandel, Dr Nasar Meer, Professor Joel Robbins | The panellists will discuss Dr Özyürek’s newly published book Being German, Becoming Muslim: race, religion, and conversion in the New Europe. Esra Özyürek is Associate Professor in Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE’s European Institute. Ruth Mandel is Reader in Social Anthropology at University College London. Nasar Meer is Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship at Strathclyde University and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow. Joel Robbins is Sigrid Rausing Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University...
2015-01-211h 25
Across the BoardSigrid RausingAcross The Board: a series of interviews conducted by Dominic Lawson over a game of chess. Today Dominic takes on one of Britain's leading philanthropists, Sigrid Rausing, who plays chess every day with her husband.
2014-10-2912 min
Lundströms BokradioBokcirkeln i Lundströms Bokradio läser nobelpristagaren Gabriel García Márquez mästerverk Hundra år av ensamhetLördag den tionde maj är dramatikern Martina Montelius och diplomaten Pierre Schori på plats i Marie Lundströms studio för första träffen om den colombianske författarens roman från 1967. Så här säger programledare Marie Lundström om vad som väntar: Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. - Jag har längtat efter att få läsa den här berättelsen i Bokcirkeln. När dödsbudet om Gabriel García Márquez kom, hade vi sedan länge bestämt att nu skulle det bli av. Efter att ha klämt...
2014-05-1043 minSummer 2012 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfResisting intolerance: an ethical and global challengeContributor(s): His Holiness the Dalai Lama | His Holiness the Dalai Lama is visiting the LSE to deliver the opening speech of a one' day conference entitled Tolerance in a Just and Fair Society, at the invitation of Frederick Bonnart Braunthal Trust, Matrix Chambers, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and the London School of Economics & Political Science. HH the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born on 6th July 1935 in north-eastern Tibet and recognised as the incarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Since 1959, he has been living in...
2012-06-2056 minSummer 2012 | Public lectures and events | VideoResisting intolerance: an ethical and global challengeContributor(s): His Holiness the Dalai Lama | His Holiness the Dalai Lama is visiting the LSE to deliver the opening speech of a one' day conference entitled Tolerance in a Just and Fair Society, at the invitation of Frederick Bonnart Braunthal Trust, Matrix Chambers, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and the London School of Economics & Political Science. HH the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born on 6th July 1935 in north-eastern Tibet and recognised as the incarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. Since 1959, he has been living in...
2012-06-2056 minThe Granta Podcast Episode 26A recording from the London launch of Granta 117: Horror on November 2, featuring readings from contributors Mark Doty and Will Self and their discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing about blood, Dracula and the nature of addiction. The recording also features the questions and answers with the audience at Foyles bookshop.
2011-11-0559 min
GrantaWill Self & Mark Doty: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 20A recording from the London launch of Granta 117: Horror, featuring readings from contributors Mark Doty and Will Self; their discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and the questions and answers with the audience at Foyles bookshop.
2011-11-0459 minGrantaWill Self & Mark Doty: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 20A recording from the London launch of Granta 117: Horror, featuring readings from contributors Mark Doty and Will Self; their discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and the questions and answers with the audience at Foyles bookshop.
2011-11-0459 minThe Granta Podcast Episode 16In this episode, Granta magazine's publisher Sigrid Rausing joins Granta 115: The F Word contributors Rachel Cusk and Taiye Selasi for a literary discussion of women, feminism and power. This is a live recording from the launch of the issue at Foyles in London.
2011-05-3047 min